Buy art registered on the Bitcoin Blockchain

There has been some "big" news recently about how a few art galleries are now accepting bitcoin as payment for art pieces, such as the Dadiani Fine Art gallery in London and the Thierry B Fine Art gallery in Melbourne. An obvious shortcoming of this "big" news is there are literally thousands of popular artists around the world represented by hundreds of galleries. Being able to buy art with bitcoin from this tiny sliver of the art market is hardly "big" news. A significant

ArtChain.info is an actual commercial application of the bitcoin blockchain being used for art authentication. There are other projects exploring the use of bitcoin to authenticate art, such as Ascribe and Verisart, but these applications are either still in the experimental stage, or not used to authenticate high-end fine art. ArtChain.info is currently tracking the ownership (provenance) of art created from some of today's most popular contemporary artists. It is the high-

There are a number of offerings on the market today including Verisart, Ascribe and Tagsmart that claim to authenticate art pieces by issuing digital certificates of authenticity. This post attempts to explain the differences between these offerings as compared to ArtChain.info which tracks the ownership of art using the bitcoin blockchain. It's only an attempt that involves a certain amount of speculation since it's not exactly clear how these other systems work, and their